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This CD (which comes with ear plugs) is the perfect gift to play for your annoying and loud neighbors. Here is the track list:
1) Drill 2) Party (At Least 200 People) 3) Orgasm (Outstanding) 4) Train 5) Drum (Played by a Child) 6) Inhuman Screams 7) Walking (High Heels) 8) Domestic Squabble 9) Doors Banging 10) Bowling 11) Unhappy Dog 12) Practicing Scales (Violin) 13) Traffic Jam 14) Garbage Truck 15) Newborn 16) Phone Ringing 17) Ball Game 18) Pigeons 19) Spring Cleaning 20) Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
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The three singers of Journey, Steve Perry, Steve Augeri, and most recently Arnel Pineda (discovered from YouTube) "reunite" to sing "Open Arms." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKhzHrSXiE&fmt=18]
[Thanks Stan!]
Here's Nirvana singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in 1993 just after appearing on RuPaul's TV show in the UK. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYxxqiFMjzU&fmt=18]
I'm getting flannel shirt flashbacks.

Full Disclosure: I was a serious ultimate frisbee geek from high school through college. The ultimate song about the ultimate sport.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkPPW-mBO9Y&fmt=18]
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This is an excellent video compilation someone put together that juxtaposes the original songs (with artist and name) with all of Kanye West's samples. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaDeC2LEdA&fmt=18]
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The latest McSweeney's hilarity.
The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
I want to do it with you.
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Marvin Gaye, "Let's Get It On"
I want to do it with you.
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Led Zeppelin, "Whole Lotta Love"
I want to do it with you.
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James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
I want to do it with you.
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Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back"
I want to do it.
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Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"
You're doing it with everyone.
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R. Kelly, "I Believe I Can Fly"
I believe I want to do it with you.
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Patsy Cline, "Crazy"
I want to do it with you so much I'm going fucking nuts.
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Frank Sinatra, "Strangers in the Night"
I'm drunk and I want to do it with you.
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The White Stripes, "My Doorbell"
Using metaphor, I want to do it with you.
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Little Richard, "Good Golly Miss Molly"
I'm doing it with Miss Molly, and she's totally into it.
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Duran Duran, "Rio"
I'd love to do that chick dancing on the sand.
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The Beatles, "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
I'd like to do it with you right now.
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Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
We used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I'm not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.
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Pulp, "Common People"
I once met a stuck-up European who wanted to do it with me.
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Radiohead, "Creep"
I'm filled with self-loathing, and, though outwardly I hate everything you represent, I want to do it with you.
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Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"
I'm an 18th-century fictional character and I want to do it with another 18th-century fictional character.
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Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"
The Man is currently doing it to you.
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Elvis Presley, "Jailhouse Rock"
Incarcerated men will on occasion do it with each other.
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Meat Loaf, "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
Hey! You won't believe what this one chick said while I was doing it with her!
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Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"
I did it with you, and now it hurts when I pee.
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Céline Dion, "My Heart Will Go On"
Even your death has not stopped me wanting to do it with you.
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AC/DC, "You Shook Me All Night Long"
We did it yesterday.
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François Macré all by his lonesome recreates Thriller a capella using 64 separate tracks. It's pretty impressive. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFAVxaEc9JQ&fmt=18]
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Tangentially related to the previous entry, this is from a 1987 concert. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i39tcwTpM4&fmt=18]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&fmt=18] For his documentary "Playing or Change: Peace Through Music," filmmaker Mark Johnson traveled through four continents and recorded various musicians--some from unexpected quarters--playing "Stand By Me."
Each musician was charged with layering a single song over the previous artist thus building upon it. Over thirty musicians globally participated in this project and not one artist knew the other or came in contact initially.
Here's the trailer:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-LBpqa9EY&fmt=18]
I'm skeptical about the impact and transformative nature of projects such as this, but I'm always thankful for them, because in the end I find them to be wonderful.
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- Star Trek gloves...or Lobster gloves?
- Hitler is really mad about his real estate investment gone bad.
- Thai temple made out of Heinken and local beer bottles. Stunning.
- Cool creative reel from Laundry!
- If you have yellow fever you'll like this site from Uniqlo.
- Cool music video.
- Another cool PSP billboard. Although mine is gathering dust at the moment. Bring out Lumines 3!!!
- Lincoln and the myth of the "Team of Rivals."
- INSANITY on a modified drum set for Guitar Hero.
- Great opening sentences from Science Fiction.
- X-ray view of a macbook.
- Mitt Romney says let Detroit go bankrupt.
- How Detroit drove into a ditch. Fascinating read about how the Detroit auto companies got to where they are today with their hands out alms in DC.
RSS reader dump.
- Escape alarm clock. WANT.
- Bike Hero.
- Rooms for rent for the Obama inauguration.
- Indian navy beats up on pirates!
- Mom pants horror.
- HAHAHA!
- I love you.
- Sonics basketball fan files for free agency.
- Insane drift racing! It makes Fast and Furious look like the documentary of the Model T.
- I really WANT this mini digital camera.
- The death spiral of Internet surfing.
- Mormons Seeking Forgiveness.
- Bacon floss. I usually support bacon but this is terrible.
- Neat background story to the Dove campaign.
- How A-bomb testing changed people's brains.
- I want everything from this store.
- Comparison of headwear worn by gnomes by %.
- Flaming truck.
- Best lunch bags ever by a mom who is setting the bar REALLY high for other moms at that school.
- Periodic table wine. I WANT.
- How many players are still active from video games RBI Baseball and Tecmo Super Bowl?
- You are beautiful.


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